27 December 2002
Yes, sir! It’s all happening today!
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It’s all changing for the better
Ohh… It’s all so exciting!
I would like to make a request:
Please enable “allow anonymous comments” so that I may leave comments w/o an email address.
I can’t wait to see what you have in store for us.
We got anonymous comments, for one thing!
The new site looks great so far! I have just a few suggestions:
First, either MT or your configuration of MT is spitting out div’s and span’s with the same id attribute (e.g. ‘footie’ and ‘stamp’. This is a no-no. It looks like these are being used to specify style, so the class attribute would probably be more appropriate.
Second, MT is nesting p tags inside each other, which is also illegal (since the closing tag is optional, the second p tag ends the first one, resulting in too many closing tags at the end).
Third, the text-indent of the p tag makes comments with single line breaks (translated as br tags) look kind of ugly (e.g. tylerdave’s above post, although maybe that’s his fault for not using a double cr/lf :) ).
Like I said the new design looks good, and none of the above are that important since it renders fine on my browser.
A few more things I though of after seeing my previous comment. I find it difficult to differentiate between two adjacent comments since the author/time info doesn’t really stand out from the comment text. Also, are there any plans to integrate comments and posts from the previous system into the new system?
While we’re offering suggestions:
Could you show the time zone whenever you display the time? I know it’s not exactly difficult to do the math but I’m a little groggy in the morning.
And yes tb, I do double-cr/lf
D’oh! The double-layered P tags are caused by my leaving the “convert line breaks” option turned on, while also leaving them in my templates as going around the entry body. I’ll search and destroy those tonight.
Also, I see what you mean about the style sheet in the comments being minorly wacked out. What I’ll do later is create a new one for comments only. That’ll take care of the ugly DIV and SPAN nesting, which was implemented temporarily to make things legible.
On tonight’s agenda: importing my old archives. Since Blogger sucks, it wouldn’t let me replublish them last night in the recommended import-friendly format. I’ll probably delete the link to the default RSS feed too, because I did this whole thing by reflex in HTML, not XHTML.
Dave — I’ll see if there’s an easy option for the timezone, too. It’s currently set in Central, which is why things are confusing.
Once things on Bits are sufficiently straightened out (including the search box, which won’t be much good until I get old entries in here), I’ll build the Books list as a separate blog using the MTAmazon plugin. Then, I’ll try to figure out how I want to build the photoblog, and import the newest entries from both of the above into this sidebar — I sense the need for some PHP.
Thanks for the suggestions!! I’m just amazed that it’s gone so smoothly thus far.
Looks great! :)